Hello I can confirm that I'm also observing the same issue when running turbostat. I've attached the respective turbostat log with and without the hping syn flood running. I've also attached my kernel config. It's evident that when the CPU is in c0 state (processing data) due to the syn packets the top utility doesn't detect it (for me it was showing sustained 0% usage both for kernel and user space) Regards, Nikolay